doré
noun
the walleye or pike perch of North America.
doré
1 American
[daw-rey]
/ dɔˈreɪ /
noun
Canadian Dialect.
doré
2
American
[daw-rey]
/ dɔˈreɪ /
noun
Mining.
Dore
3
American
[dawr ]
/ dɔr /
noun
Doré
4
American
[daw-rey, daw-rey]
/ dɔˈreɪ, dɔˈreɪ /
noun
Doré
1
British
/ dɔre /
noun
doré
2
British
/ -riː, ˈdɔːreɪ /
noun
Etymology
Origin of doré1
1765–75; < Canadian French: literally, gilded, French < Late Latin deaurātus; see dorado
Origin of doré2
< French: literally, gilded; < Late Latin deaurātus; see dorado
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China imports doré from those mines, process it and re-export.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 3, 2026
They have expanded in recent years, spurred on by favourable import duties on their main source of gold - imported, unrefined gold known as gold doré.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024
A corruption of jaune doré, which is the colour of this fish.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
Cordovan leather is hung upon the walls, and the restored sleeping-room is hung with a canopy and separated from the rest of the apartment by a balustrade in bois doré.
From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche
Trop doré, her admirers called it; but, my love, it was as red as that scullion's we saw in the poultry yard yesterday.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Peter Dore, Head of Archives and Collections, said it was "great to see the process from the initial idea, to the game going to market and how long and drawn out that was".
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025
"Pilot said his collision warning went off & he needed to avoid plane coming at us. Wow," Dore wrote on X. "A flight attendant needed medical attention."
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025
“It is not the job of a card reader to promise revelations,” Jessica Dore writes in her book “Tarot for Change,” “because that’s not how secrets work.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024
He welcomed Jimmy Dore, another conspiracy-theory-minded comedian-podcaster, for a remote interview, thanking him for a mood lift “at a time where I plainly need it.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2023
He had no idea where he had got his picture of academic life—perhaps from the Dore illustrations of Dante’s Inferno with its massed and radiant angels.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
At the time, a post from her or Bryanboy or Garance Doré could carry the advertising weight of a page in a glossy magazine.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
It contained illustrations from Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late-19th century.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
“I think people are just longing to socially connect,” Berlin-based DJ Elias Doré said, saying that thousands of young people would normally be dancing under the open skies of European festivals this summer.
From Reuters ● Jun. 26, 2020
Crosthwaite, a painter whose work is as influenced by comic books as it is by Gustav Doré, recently won the top prize in the National Portrait Gallery’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2019
Doré makes it an actual event, not merely a parable.
From The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Bailey, Henry Turner
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